National Police Spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe noted that almost 2,000 children were reported missing since 2022, but 742 of those have never been found.
National Police Spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed that almost 2,000 children were reported missing since 2022
Bianca van Aswegen from Missing Children SA detailed how crime was contributing to the suge of missing children cases South Africans described how painful it was to know how easily some of country's children went missing every yearA total of 742 children remain missing since 2023 according to the South African Police Services. Image: Darren StewartAlmost 2,000 South African children have been reported missing in the past three years.
That’s according to National Police Spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, who revealed that 1,252 children were found safe, but a whopping 742 remain missing. That means that an average of about 250 children go missing and are never found.Mathe noted that 740 children were reported missing during the 2022/2023 financial year, but only 474 were found. In 2023/2024, 697 children went missing, but only 472 were found. and returned home.
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